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New study suggests the Atlantic overturning circulation AMOC “is on tipping course”

Real Climate

The paper results from a major computational effort, based on running a state-of-the-art climate model (the CESM model with horizontal resolution 1° for the ocean/sea ice and 2° for the atmosphere/land component) for 4,400 model years.

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A 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021

Inside Climate News

It says it will stop manufacturing and using PFAS in its products by 2025. At a sprawling 3M chemical manufacturing complex here, where the company makes adhesives for Post-it notes, golf clubs and LCD displays, several hundred pounds of a potent climate killer are vented into the atmosphere each day. By Phil McKenna CORDOVA, Ill.—At

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Panera looks to reduce carbon emissions, promote supply chain sustainability

Environmental News Bits

Panera has announced its intention to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits by 2050, alongside several intermediate goals for 2025, in a press release Wednesday. Read the full story in Supply Chain Dive.

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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 8 Webinar On Renewable Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

Rather than vent it into the atmosphere, companies have turned to collecting and processing the gas and using it to power compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, for power generation, or for other purposes. Through 2025, WM plans to invest $825 million in its landfill RNG network.

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The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math

Circle of Blue

Next week the federal government, for the first time, will likely declare a Tier 1 shortage on the lower Colorado River, opening a new chapter in the beleaguered river’s history and illustrating its vulnerability in a region that is drying because of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

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Carbon removal using ‘blue carbon’ habitats “uncertain and unreliable”

Frontiers

Increasingly businesses and states have pledged to offset their emissions by restoring these ecosystems through carbon credits, assuming reliable knowledge on how much CO2 they will remove in future from the atmosphere. .

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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 5 to 11; Routine Venting Of Conventional Wells, Shale Gas Wells; Major Conventional Spills; Pipeline Subsidence

PA Environment Daily

DEP’s inspection report for both wells noted “This recently drilled conventional well is currently venting to the atmosphere.” Of course today, we know natural gas (methane) is a potent climate-changing greenhouse gas and uncontrolled venting of new conventional wells releases this gas into the atmosphere. No violations were noted.